Improvement in clod-crushers



w. FENSTERMAGHER.

(Hod-Crusher.

Patented Jan a, 1865.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM FENSTERMAOHER, OF SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOD-CRUSHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,705, dated January 3, 1865; antedated March 7, 1864.

Fig. 3, detached and broken sections of one ofthe clod-breaking blades.

The object and purpose of the invention is to break or crush up the clods in fields preparatory to sowing or planting, or after the fields have been sowed or planted, thereby rendering the surface of the soil more even and smooth and rendering its cultivation easier, while at the same time insuring an increased production.

In the drawings, A represents the main frame, which is of rectangular form, and has four downwardly-projccting arms, 0 G and G G, fastened securely thereto. Acylinder, E, provided with blades G, is supported in the arms 0 G, its axle orjournal e in hearings in the lower ends of said arms. The blades Gr run lengthwise of cylinder E, which may be made of wood, with grooves out out to receive the base of the blades, or the blades may befastened to the cylinder, and then pieces of wood nailed, screwed, or otherwise fastened between the blades, as indicated at F F, Fig. 2. I have found blades of cast-iron to answer well, although they may be made of wrought-iron or other material, as constructors may prefer. In

the buck set of arms, G O, a smooth roller, 1), is

sustained, its axle or journalcl turningin bear-' and the rear roller of the same diameter as the first-viz fourteen inches.

As the machine is advanced the bladesGr Gr crush and open the clods and dry lumps of the soil, while the smooth roller D follows and rolls and smooths down the earth thus broken up.

The advantages of my invention will be at once appreciated by those accustomed to cultivate fields on which the soil lumps up.

My invention is simple, and requires no more time than does the use of the ordinary smooth roller.

Having described my improved clod breaker and roller, what I claim as of my invention,.

and desire to secure by Letters .Patent, is-

The combination, with the main frame A and arms or hangers O O and O O, of the cylinder E, provided with blades G, and the rear smooth roller, D, said parts being arranged and operating in relation to each other as and for the purposes set forth.

WM. FENSTERMAOHER. Witnesses:

R. P. MQGLURE, ISAAC HYKAS. 

